Hey Bruce, Thanks, just wanted to double check. I'll do a release soon.
Al On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 14:08 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:58:20AM -0700, Al Chu wrote: > > Hey Christian, > > > > I've applied the patch, thanks! Just wondering how bad this is and > > if > > it warrants a FreeIPMI release. It sounds like on certain systems, > > a > > segfault was probably happening all the time? > > Yes, that's what seems to be happening. While we're only aware of > this > happening on the mentioned Dell HW, the bug itself isn't HW-specific > and > could well affect any systems that happen to fall through the early > release paths. However, we did not reproduce it on other hardware, > and > did not find other reports of people experiencing this problem in the > wild. > > For Ubuntu, we'll likely be providing this patch directly to users > via > our stable release update process, and so won't need an upstream > release > for that. However, an upstream release likely would be quite helpful > for other Linux distributions and users more generally. > > Thanks! > Bryce
